FlightAware Flight Tracker

"FlightAware may share your Personal Information with our subsidiaries and affiliated companies or prospective affiliates companies (the "RTX Group"). ... These third parties may collect (via tracking technologies like cookies or web beacons) and use information regarding your interaction with the content or ads that they deliver and with which you interact."

FlightAware shares personal information broadly across the RTX corporate group and enables third-party advertisers and analytics partners to collect user data directly through tracking technologies embedded on the site.

"Cookies, web beacons and similar tools allow us and our Partners to identify your device, track your interactions with other websites, and track activity over time and across websites by storing information locally on your device. We use both session cookies (which expire once you close your web browser) and persistent cookies (which stay on your computer or device until you delete them)."

FlightAware and its advertising/analytics partners track user activity across websites and over time using persistent cookies, web beacons, and device identifiers, enabling cross-site behavioral profiling.

"We use your IP address and/or country preference to approximate your location to provide you with a better experience. How much of this information we collect depends on the type and settings of the device you use to access the products and services."

FlightAware uses IP addresses to approximate user location and collects device-level information including IP address, device identifiers, and operating system details.

"We also collect information through your device about your operating system, browser type, IP address, URLs of referring/exit pages, device identifiers, and crash data. We use your IP address and/or country preference to approximate your location to provide you with a better experience."

FlightAware collects extensive device-level data including unique device identifiers, crash data, referring URLs, and browsing patterns beyond what is strictly necessary for flight tracking functionality.

"Unless otherwise required by law or to the extent we reasonably deem necessary to protect our rights, property, or safety, and the rights, property, and safety of our users, we will delete Personal Information when: (1) it is no longer necessary in relation to the purposes for which it was collected... if this is not possible (for example, because the information has been stored in backup archives), then we will securely store your information and isolate it from any further use until deletion is possible."

FlightAware provides no specific retention timelines and carves out broad exceptions allowing indefinite retention for legal, safety, or business reasons, including keeping data in backup archives indefinitely.

"To accommodate changes in our business, products, services, technology, and legal developments, we may add, change, or remove portions of this Privacy Notice as we feel it is appropriate to do so. Updated notices and disclosures will be posted to our website. We encourage you to review this Privacy Notice on a regular basis for any changes."

FlightAware reserves the right to modify the privacy notice at any time without directly notifying users, merely posting updates on the website and expecting users to check regularly.

"You may request deletion of your account or Personal Information by us, but please note that we may be required (by law or otherwise) to keep this information and not delete it (or to keep this information for a certain time), in which case we will comply with your deletion request only after we have fulfilled such requirements."

Account deletion requires contacting FlightAware by email with no self-service option clearly described, and the company reserves broad rights to retain data even after a deletion request citing legal or other requirements.